Heavy Equipment Having a Rough Life

[06bowtie_guy]

Here is a power point file with some pictures of heavy equipment living a very hard life. I was e-mailed the slideshow at work so have no history behind any of the mishaps.

Notice the coal mine pictures, could have seen that comming.

http://www.86bucs.com/misc/EquipmentMishaps.pps

[Dwan Hall]

All I can say is WOW!

[Grader4me]

All I can say is WOW!

:eek: I'll second that

[equipment fan]

WOW!!This is very nice:cool:

[nedly05]

Nice? What about it is nice? Hopefully none of the operators of those machines was injured fataly. Interesting pictures none-the-less.

[Electra_Glide]

Hmmm....that one with the lipped pan looks suspicsously like one of our members' avatars.

http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/member.php?u=1036

[tylermckee]

Hmmm....that one with the lipped pan looks suspicsously like one of our members' avatars.

http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/member.php?u=1036

http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=259&page=2

[Ford LT-9000]

The pictures are no worky I can't open them :(

[Dozerboy]

I can't see it the puter tells me the file type is a PPS not a PPT anyone know how I can view it?

[JBL]

Download this and you can view them.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

[Countryboy]

Here is a power point file with some pictures of heavy equipment living a very hard life. I was e-mailed the slideshow at work so have no history behind any of the mishaps.

Notice the coal mine pictures, could have seen that comming.

http://www.86bucs.com/misc/EquipmentMishaps.pps

Funny, I got that same email just a few minutes ago. :cool:

It appears alan627b has been made famous. :D

[stumpjumper83]

Man, those pics of the dirt avalanche looks rough. I'm glad that I don't do quarry work, would make me nervous about being down in the pit after or during a good rain.

[Dozerboy]

Thanks JBL

What’s the deal with one of the mining pic in the beginning it looks like there loading material out that is on fire or did the fire start after it was loaded?

[06bowtie_guy]

Thanks JBL

What’s the deal with one of the mining pic in the beginning it looks like there loading material out that is on fire or did the fire start after it was loaded?

It appears to be a coal mine which for whatever reason was on fire. They were loading the truck and hauling. Notice they progress to the point where the truck is burnt to the ground along with the shovel.

[Dwan Hall]

Looks like they were trying to haul the fire away before it got away from them. How would one put a fire out in a coal mine?

I know there has been a fire going on up north in the muskeg for at least the last 20 years with no way to fight it.

[Electra_Glide]

Looks like they were trying to haul the fire away before it got away from them. How would one put a fire out in a coal mine?

I know there has been a fire going on up north in the muskeg for at least the last 20 years with no way to fight it.
There has been a mine fire going on underneath Centralia, PA for the last 45 years. Some things I have read suggest that it could burn for another 100 years. :eek:

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

Joe

[traxs]

checked out that site, pretty impressive that it's still burning.
Coal can be a pain in the ass. Where I work we stockpile the fine coal(when we get too much). It gets wet and the sun heats it up, sometimes we stir it up with a hoe and theres lots of steam and smoke. One year it actually caught fire.

[digger242j]

It appears to be a coal mine which for whatever reason was on fire. They were loading the truck and hauling. Notice they progress to the point where the truck is burnt to the ground along with the shovel.

Actually, they're different sets of pictures.

The shovel loading the burning material is marked "Blair Althol" ,and has the number 1 on it, while the burning shovel is number 4. Similarly, the truck being loaded with the burning material is number 643 (as painted on the front of the cab protector), but the burned out truck doesn't have a tall enough front on the cab protector to paint that number.

[90plow]

I go to school in PA right by Centralia about 45 minutes away. It is a strange place to go and even stranger people live there (about 14 left). The government bought out the town because it was cheaper than putting out the fire. Theres an abandoned 4 lane highway that you can walk with 1-2 foot cracks with steam and smoke coming out. I've taken my old truck out there a couple times and gone off roading because no one seems to care about anything out there its like mad max living out there fourwheelers driving around old equipment just sitting there roads that go to nowhere and about 5 houses.
-Eric

[Mike J]

Yup Digger is right, if you look at the booms of the shovels one has a cable opperated bucket and the other looks like it is fully hydraulic. The 2 pics of burned trucks are each different trucks and they both are different from the pic of the truck hauling the burning coal.

[alan627b]

I think those pics were on 4 websites at one time, just after it happened. If I can't be famous, then I'll be infamous!
What a thing to be remembered for....
alan627b

[Countryboy]

I think those pics were on 4 websites at one time, just after it happened. If I can't be famous, then I'll be infamous!
What a thing to be remembered for....
alan627b

Well atleast we know who to talk to for the real story. :wink2

You could always claim copyright infringment.........:cool2

[BrianHay]

So what is the story Alan? What happened?

[Alan]

I just found this and wish the original link still worked, anybody have a working link to it?

[LowBoy]

There has been a mine fire going on underneath Centralia, PA for the last 45 years. Some things I have read suggest that it could burn for another 100 years. :eek:

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

Joe





Pretty stinkin' interesting to say the least, Joe. I know right where this place is. In the early to mid '90's, I had a couple of dump trailers and we hauled specialty scrap steel to Reading, Pa. on a daily basis out of Connecticut. I did my homework and eventually we were hauling coal every day back up into New England for a return trip. Most of it was out of Tamaqua, Pottsville, Frackville,Shamokin,and Minersville.

I also was in the landscaping materials supply business at that time. We purchased colored stone from various quarries and sold it wholesale and even bagged some and sold it in bulk, and did a lot of jobs with it. One particular type of stone I used was from an area around Scranton that is a byproduct of another existing underground mine fire. It is a very colorful, cinder-like texture, with red, tannish and browns.The owners of the property had an old rusted out crusher, an old rusted out Trojan loader, and old rusted out everything else to extract, crush and stockpile this material to load out. They crushed it in 2 sizes; 3/4" and 1 1/4".

You can walk around that place and see the steam and heat vapors coming up out of the ground as well. He (the owner,) said the fire's been burning for I forget how long, and it's a pretty widespread underground fire.

Just for the record: I was talking with a guy from up around Williamsport, Pa. recently, doing something associated with equipment. we were talking about different things when I got on the topic of coal, mining, hauling, etc. I said something about the gruffness of one particular mine worker, and he perked up and says "Yeah, all those people up in coal country are a little gruff; can't seem to deal with 'em, that's why the rest of us in Pa. call 'em "coalcrackers..." Man, I got the biggest kick out of that statement, I don't know why, other than hearing a native of an area comment on another native I guess...:D

Thanks for the story. Nice post.

FYI: I just noticed the "sell by" date on this post, thought it was a new one.Sorry.

[Steve Frazier]

One particular type of stone I used was from an area around Scranton that is a byproduct of another existing underground mine fire. It is a very colorful, cinder-like texture, with red, tannish and browns.

I use that in my business as decorative stone, it's called Timberlite at the supplier.

[LowBoy]

I use that in my business as decorative stone, it's called Timberlite at the supplier.











Same stuff. I used to buy it by the 25 ton trailerload and truck it to garden centers at wholesale until I smartened up and converted an old coal bagging hopper into a stone bagging hopper. Still have the balance beam scale that I used with that setup too. That felt a lot better selling it by the 50 lb. bag than it did by the ton. Problem was, and it took me several years to learn this hard lesson...the old saying "Location, Location, Location" is relevant. Had I stayed in Ct. and operated this business in my old stomping grounds, I'b probably be typing this on a gold-plated keyboard by now. Unfortunately my move to this region has stifled that dream, and so I humbly continue to type on this dusty old black, sticky-keyed Dell board. But hey...the kids don't have purple hair, mohawks, or listen to "kill your parents music". (We are severe Bocephus fans here, possibly more damaging than the above description.:Cowboy :crazy )